[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: SCA, painful things

[Amanda Geist]

> Iggy here:
>
> My main question would be to ask where Ansteorra is located, as the only
> ones I'm sure about are the Kingdoms of the West and Caid...

Texas and Oklahoma. We are a child of old Atenveldt. Jan was the fourth
king, eons ago in 1980 or thereabouts.

>  I was a prime example of someone who was
> in the SCA for 6 years and had never been granted an Award of Arms
> because everyone just assumed I had one already.)

Oh, I know the type. Happens to a lot of the military folk here. Bjornsborg
is San Antonio. I hope someone caught up with you finally.

> (The heraldry of my device is: per pales, gules and sable.  A mullet of
> seven points, pierced, orr, between three de-crescents, argent.    In
> other words, on a heater shield, it's split top to bottom down the
> middle with red on the left side and black on the right.  A gold, seven
> pointed star with a hole in the middle is surrounded by three silver
> crescent moons with points to the right, one at each of the three
> corners of the shield.)

Please. I'm a herald. I presume you haven't been around long enough on the
list to have had to endure any of my tirades when people refer to the
Hogwarts "crest," etc.

Lovely device, if too many colors.  By all means keep it, unless you've a
better design you'd prefer.

Mine: Argent, an elephant passant purpure, armed and unguled Or, on a chief
embattled purpure three annulets Or.

~Amanda